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LE JOUR SE LEVE (Daybreak) (1939) * with hard-encoded English subtitles *

Marcel Carné Writers: Jacques Viot (original scenario), Jacques Prévert (dialogue) Stars: Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent, Arletty
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Une dispute se fait entendre dans une maison ouvrière de banlieue. Coup de feu, porte qui claque. Un homme, Valentin, roule sur les marches, mort. L'assassin, François, se barricade dans sa chambre. La police arrive et assiège la maison. Pendant la nuit, François revoit les étapes du drame, son amour pour Françoise, la jeune fleuriste, sortie tout comme lui de l'Assistance publique, sa rencontre avec Valentin, le cynique montreur de chiens, prêt à tout pour assouvir sa passion des jeunes filles en fleur, et ses relations équivoques avec Clara, la compagne de Valentin ... 

An argument can be heard behind the doors of an apartment in a working-class neighborhood.  A man, Valentin, rolls down the steps and is found dead by a blind man.  The alleged murderer, François, has barricaded himself in his room.  The police arrive and lay siege to his apartment.  As the night passes, François reviews the progression of the tragedy:  his love for the clever orphan Françoise and how he becomes increasingly disturbed by her attraction to the seedy entertainer Valentin.  When Clara, Valentin's assistant and lover, leaves him, she pursues François, who still pines for Françoise.  Amused by François' frustrations at trying to win over the girl, Valentin taunts him, which leads to the tragic act and the intervention of the police.

DVD-R is in Franch with hard-encoded English subtitles.  Approx. 86 mins. + 13 min. contemporary newsreel.

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